“We're constantly working to speed up delivery times and introduce new services that make our customers' lives easier,” says Alexandre Gagnon, country manager for Amazon.ca. “With same-day delivery, customers in Toronto and Vancouver can conveniently take care of errands or complete holiday shopping in a day with just a few clicks, receive orders seven days a week and have what they need delivered to their home in a matter of hours.”

Amazon says Canadian online shoppers can receive same-day deliveries for some 1 million eligible products. Members of Amazon’s Prime shipping program pay a C$6.99 ($6.11) per-order shipping fee for the same-day deliveries. Other consumers pay C$11.99 ($10.48) per shipment plus C$1.99 ($1.74) per item for most items, says the e-retailer, No. 1 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide.

Amazon’s same-day delivery in Canada comes amid big expectations for that country’s e-commerce growth. A Forrester Research Inc. report from October projects that Canadian e-commerce will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 12.3% through 2019, when Canadians will spend about C$39.9 billion ($35.9 billion) on the web. Online spending in Canada will account for 6% of all retail spending this year, Forrester predicts. In the United States, e-commerce accounts for 6.4% of retail spending, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Commerce Department.